# property_seed # property_seed The minimum identifying set for a property: enough to address it in a source system before anything else is known. A minimum set of house property seed data containing essential identifying information for property records. The question it answers ## Who owns it, and what does that imply? A deed names its parties as strings. Resolving those strings to a person and a mailing address is what separates an owner-occupant from an investor, and what links one owner to the rest of a portfolio. Other classes answering this question ## Why it matters This is where a jurisdiction run starts. The seed carries the parcel identifier and the source location, which is everything needed to fetch the record and nothing more. Separating the seed from the record is what allows acquisition to be planned before extraction is written: a jurisdiction's parcel list can be assembled and counted while the mapping scripts for it are still being generated. ## Properties | Property | Type | Definition | | --- | --- | --- | | `source_http_request` | `object` | HTTP request configuration for retrieving this data. | | `entry_http_request` | `object` | HTTP request configuration for retrieving this data. | | `request_identifier` | `string | null` | Identifier value that should be substituted into the source HTTP request to retrieve this specific data. | | `parcel_id` | `string` | A unique identifier for the property parcel as assigned by the local assessor or jurisdiction. | | `prior_parcel_id` | `string` | The parcel identification number (parcel ID or folio) that was previously assigned to the property before it was changed due to a split, combination, renumbering, or administrative update by the property appraiser. | ## Provenance and coverage A record of this class is validated against the same definition whatever jurisdiction it came from, which is what makes two counties comparable without a per-county adapter. A jurisdiction appears below only where a committed configuration serves this class's surface. - Lee, Florida - Palm Beach, Florida - Miami-Dade, Florida - Orange, Florida - Santa Clara, California How a new jurisdiction is brought online